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[ivyfic]

And the heroes cogitating continues... Forgive me for catching up with a whole season of meta.

First, let me say that Mohinder is hot. Really, quite spectacularly hot. That accent--guh.

However, he has now been a patsy three times! First to Eden (not surprising at all when she turned out to be a mole), then to Sylar, and now to the company. At this point, he's not coming off as naive. He's coming off as stupid. Really stupid. That's reason one.

Reason two--his only purpose on the show is exposition. He doesn't really have a heroic journey going on. Most of what he does is give the science-babble of how all this works. And since the technobabble is, as is usually true for shows like this, the weakest part of the story. I always roll my eyes when he's on-screen.

I don't know. Maybe I'd like him more if he wasn't spewing completely untrue urban legends about genetics and neurobiology. (Most humans only use 10% of their brain! Um, no. fMRI's have disproved that. It's difficult to track down the right gene because of all the millions of base pairs! Honey, most of that's junk. It's still difficult to track down the right base pairs, but you should know that most of the DNA in a cell is not genes. And if that's true, why do you immediately know that Peter's DNA is changing? And why can you give Molly your antibodies and have it work? Did you even blood-type her before the transfusion? Gah!)

So, yes. Mohinder is a useless character that goes around talking shit about genetics and evolution (hell, the X-Men movie did a better job at the "science") and alternately endangering himself and other people. And I don't like him.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Confront him with term papers and cheating on tests and departmental politics and he's probably an expert.

Considering that he was first introduced spouting off the '10% of our brains is all we got!' bullshit, I wouldn't say that that was a given. Mohinder isn't exactly on great terms with his university; he's got exactly one colleague who even listens to his stories; and his ex-girlfriend is like, "Dude, even industry thinks you're a crackpot."

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

I didn't say his science makes sense--that's a whole other kettle of fish. But he's an academe and ill-equipped to deal with the world, or people, beyond his little fishbowl. I've known far too many grad students and professors exactly like him.